The Balance of Comfort; Or, The Old Maid and Married Woman: A Novel. In Three Volumes, Nide 1Printed at the Minerva Press for A.K. Newman and Company, 1817 |
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... felt soon more interest thar they can be supposed to feel in its important contents . Mrs. Vernon had married young , and without that due regard to prudential motives , which , widely different from par- simony and worldliness , ought ...
... felt soon more interest thar they can be supposed to feel in its important contents . Mrs. Vernon had married young , and without that due regard to prudential motives , which , widely different from par- simony and worldliness , ought ...
Sivu 9
... felt , without a sufficiency of the vile dross of the world . I am equally an enemy to the avarice which centres all good in riches , and the romance which despises them altogether . " Mrs. Vernon cast a glance of much meaning on ...
... felt , without a sufficiency of the vile dross of the world . I am equally an enemy to the avarice which centres all good in riches , and the romance which despises them altogether . " Mrs. Vernon cast a glance of much meaning on ...
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... felt the want of Althea at this moment , whose regulated and sensible mind , and buoyant spirits , had always been her greatest comfort in former troubles . She regretted she had not accompanied Isabella home , where the sight of their ...
... felt the want of Althea at this moment , whose regulated and sensible mind , and buoyant spirits , had always been her greatest comfort in former troubles . She regretted she had not accompanied Isabella home , where the sight of their ...
Sivu 25
... felt relieved by the communication . Her spirits revived as she listened to her sensible old friend , and felt relieved from her own sensations . The evening con- cluded in much greater comfort than she had anticipated ; and the friends ...
... felt relieved by the communication . Her spirits revived as she listened to her sensible old friend , and felt relieved from her own sensations . The evening con- cluded in much greater comfort than she had anticipated ; and the friends ...
Sivu 32
... felt a little hurt , when she saw her sisters enter that elegant carriage , and set off on such a delightful jaunt , while she had only a dirty hack , and a dull ride of a few miles to a poor vicarage . I could not help pitying her ...
... felt a little hurt , when she saw her sisters enter that elegant carriage , and set off on such a delightful jaunt , while she had only a dirty hack , and a dull ride of a few miles to a poor vicarage . I could not help pitying her ...
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The Balance of Comfort: Or, the Old Maid and Married Woman: a Novel; Vol. II Ross Esikatselu ei käytettävissä - 2017 |
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Sivu 177 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Sivu 39 - He, that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Imbittering all his state.
Sivu 155 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps...
Sivu 201 - Frequent in park with lady at his side, Ambling and prattling scandal as he goes ; But rare at home, and never at his books...
Sivu 58 - Or, lulled to slumber by the beating rain, Secure and happy, sink at last to rest ! Or, if the sun in flaming Leo ride, By shady rivers indolently stray, And with my Delia walking side by side, Hear how they murmur as they glide away...
Sivu 122 - And never won. Dream after dream ensues; And still they dream that they shall still succeed, And still are disappointed.
Sivu 189 - tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison.
Sivu 144 - Gain on your purpos'd will. Nor in the bower, Where woodbines flaunt, and roses shed a couch, While evening draws her crimson curtains round, Trust your soft minutes with betraying man. And let th...